Опасности музыкального фанатизма (стр. 2 )

Nowadays, musical fanaticism is defined as a type of mental disorder, psychological addiction. The history of music shows that teenage girls are exposed the most to the musical fanaticism. This could be explained easily by the fact that teen girls are, usually, more insecure than boys and that they need more support. At the teenage phase music, however, becomes a very dear friend. Turning to the history of musical business, we can see that boy bands stay more popular. This is explained by the fact that boy bands are mostly pop and pop reaches a larger audience, which are mainly girls who find the boys in the band cute rather than talented.

A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Being vocal groups, most boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage, making the term something of a misnomer. However, exceptions do exist. Most boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. But One Direction and The Beatles never gave these highly choreographed performances. Boy bands are similar in concept to their counterparts, girl groups. A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.

All-female bands in which members also play instruments are usually considered a separate phenomena, and these groups are sometimes called "girl bands" to differentiate, although this terminology is not universally followed and these bands are sometimes also called girl groups.

The Andrews Sisters were the most successful of the early girl groups. The Supremes were the most successful of the wave of girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Later, the girl group template would be applied to disco, contemporary R&B, and country-based formats as well as pop. Of these later groups, the Spice Girls and TLC are considered the most successful, with the albums Spice by the Spice Girls and CrazySexyCool by TLC being the best-selling albums of all time by a girl group. Yet the boy bands however stay more popular.

ii. The Beatles and Beatlemania

Personally, I think that it’s impossible to find a person, who hasn’t heard about The Beatles. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as “Beatlemania”. Collectively included in Time magazine’s compilation of the 20th century’s 100 most influential people, they are the best-selling band in history, with estimate sales of over 600 million records worldwide. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked The Beatles as the greatest artist of all the time.

Beatlemania is a term that originated during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward British rock band The Beatles during the early years of their success. The word is similar to the much earlier term Lisztomania, used to describe fan reaction to the concerts of pianist Franz Liszt [3, p.1].

Andi Lothian, a former Scottish music promoter, claims that he coined the term while speaking to a reporter at the Caird Hall Beatles concert that took place as part of The Beatles' Mini-Tour of Scotland, on 7 October 1963, and an early printed use of the word is in The Daily Mirror 15 October 1963 in a news story about the previous day's Beatles concert in Cheltenham.

Beatlemania was already evident when the band arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in February 1964, but became common in the United States after The Beatles performed on several editions of The Ed Sullivan Show the same month. It was characterised by intense levels of hysteria and high-pitched screaming, demonstrated by female fans both at concerts and during the band's travels. The extent of Beatlemania in the United States is evidenced by their sales. During the 6½ years between the appearance of the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Let It Be LP, The Beatles had the Number One single in the US for a total of 59 weeks and topped the LP charts for 116 weeks. In other words they had the top-selling single one out of every six weeks, and the top-selling album one out of every three weeks.

The world experienced its last major Beatlemania event on 29 August 1966 at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. On that evening the foursome performed their last live concert to a crowd of 25,000 at the end of The Beatles' 1966 US Tour. On that night The Beatles retired from touring and live performing.

iii. One Direction infection

It is proved that everything repeats in the life. One Direction is the English-Irish pop boy band based in London, consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by the power of social media, One Direction’s three albums, Up All Night, Take Me Home and Midnight Memories, broke several records, topped the charts of most major markets, and generated hit singles, which include "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young" and “One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)”. Their achievements include four Brit Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards among many others. According to chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" by Billboard. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013 they had an estimated personal combined wealth of £25 million ($41.2m) making them the second wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. After the release of Midnight Memories, One Direction became the first band in US Billboard 200 history to have their first three albums debut at number one. Additionally, the album was a global success, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart and becoming the fastest and biggest selling album of 2013 in the UK. This way they had broke The Beatles’ record. One Direction: This Is Us, a 3D documentary and concert movie about the group directed by Morgan Spurlock, Ben Winston, Adam Milano and Simon Cowell, was released by TriStar Pictures on 30 August 2013. The film features the song "Best Song Ever", released on 22 July 2013. "Best Song Ever" slated to serve as the lead single of the group's third studio album Midnight Memories. The film was a box office success, topping the UK and US box offices and grossing over $60 million worldwide. It is currently the fourth highest grossing concert movie.

On 16 May 2013, the band announced their first stadium tour, the Where We Are Tour, which is set to commence in April 2014. They plan to donate £200,000 of the tour's ticket sales to the Stand Up to Cancer charity. On 23 November and in support of the release of their third studio album, Midnight Memories, the band participated in "1D Day", a day dedicated to One Direction fans. The day constituted of a landmark 7.5 hour socially interactive YouTube live-stream featuring live band performances, celebrity guests including, Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford, Piers Morgan, Jerry Springer and many more. The event was unique not only due to its long runtime but the unprecedented use of social media whereby fans got to participate in the show interact directly with the band via Google+ Hangout. [4]

In December 2013, One Direction broke yet another UK sales record with the DVD and Blue-Ray release of their 3-D concert film "This is Us". In point of fact, nearly 270,000 copies of the movie were sold in the UK within three days of its release, beating the record previously set by Michael Jackson’s This Is It in 2010 by 10,000 copies. The group was named Top Global artists of 2013 by the IFPI due to strong digital downloads, physical albums, on-demand streams, and music videos.

One Direction members are so unlike many other performers. They donate great sums to the charity. That way, in 2011, the band performed on the Children in Need 2011 broadcast, helping raise over 26 million pounds. In 2012 they extended their involvement with Children in Need as they opened the telecast with a performance of their single Live While We're Young. The group said it was "incredible" to be involved in the charity event as it was something that they had "always watched as children». In February 2013, One Direction released a medley of "One Way or Another" and "Teenage Kicks", "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)", as the 2013 Comic Relief single. In September 2012, Niall Horan organised an event to raise money for Irish Autism Action and another charity called and Temporary Emergency Accommodation Mullingar based in his hometown. Due to overwhelming demand to participate in the fundraising, the ticket website for the event broke down. Horan's brother Greg commented on the website crash, saying that "there were 500 tickets and they were all snapped up pretty quick". Horan later reflected on the fundraisings saying that he was "honoured to be able to give back to his community".

Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph, in an article on One Direction's success in the USA described One Direction as sparking resurgence in the interest in boy bands, and as forming part of a new "British Invasion" in the United States. First, he issued a track called ‘Best Song Ever.’